just saw a video compilation of makeup tiktokers showing their makeup with the lights they use for videos on and then just with normal room lights to show "how my makeup really looks in person" and they were all like "see it's normal to have bumps and texture in your skin, social media is lying to you >:( no one has smooth skin and beauty gurus fake their smooth skin with lights and/or post editing to sell you foundation" babygirl i hate to say this but you literally just showed me the special lights you use in your videos to make your makeup appear flawless and your skin smooth exactly who do you think are the evil social media people making everyone so self-conscious about their skin texture. how can you have so little self awareness that you complain about a problem while showing how you directly contribute to creating it
not to shit on an entire category but i think that if you're an influencer / makeup artist / fitness blogger you can't just occasionally address the problem and be like "yeah actually my life / makeup / body isn't half as perfect as you see on social media and it's really shitty that social media makes us so insecure about our life and physical appearance" when your entire activity and livelihood depend so crucially on you advertising yourself and your life as perfect and creating those same insecurities you complain about. like these people are out there blabbing about how "social media" make us insecure when they are not only directly creating the problem but also profiting from its existence, like babygirl either you shift your activity to actually doing those things for fun (if that's even possible because that would require 1. that it's possible to do those things exclusively for the fun of it and 2. that you were doing those things for fun in the first place) and consciously work towards not creating insecurities in people who consume your content or you shut the fuck up and change career
